how to you do my own nitro fuel?
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how to you do my own nitro fuel?
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how to you do my own nitro fuel? Anyone is doing that?
Please explain in details
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Serge
how to you do my own nitro fuel? Anyone is doing that?
Please explain in details
thanks
Serge
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how to you do my own nitro fuel?
Here's some info I received a while back.
FWIW - I import all the fuel out small group of flyers use - this translates to about 10 cases of fuel per year. After doing the math it was evident that it wouldn't be cost effective for me to mix fuel - it costs me $22 - $28 bucks per gallon to bring fuel in, depending on nitro content; mixing my own would have ended up costing us about $2 less per gallon but I wasn't about to take on the hassle of measuring, blending, storing and distributing 50+ gallons of fuel!! Sod that.
FWIW - I import all the fuel out small group of flyers use - this translates to about 10 cases of fuel per year. After doing the math it was evident that it wouldn't be cost effective for me to mix fuel - it costs me $22 - $28 bucks per gallon to bring fuel in, depending on nitro content; mixing my own would have ended up costing us about $2 less per gallon but I wasn't about to take on the hassle of measuring, blending, storing and distributing 50+ gallons of fuel!! Sod that.
Visioneer,
If you are using that much fuel, why aren't you mixing your own? Just a thought.
See AMA articles and BAMAC TX club site fuel articles. Most of my stuff
costs me about $11 or so a gallon, depends on nitro content mainly, and
that is NOT with the bulk prices I can get for my barrels! Most commercial
fuels are a bit low on oil anyway and for helicopters, you usually end up
using high oil, all synthetic and 15-30% nitromethane. This is not rocket
science. Just a few comments from the peanut gallery. **name withheld**
http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/letters/0300/0300.htm
http://rcplanet.com/bamac/mixin_fuel.htm
The old fuel mixing dinosaur
**name withheld**
PS - Folks are messing up a LOT of really nice ABC, ABN and AAC engines
and 4-strokes on a lot of this fuel, they are simply using the wrong fuel
for many engines. For example, folks here using half castor and half
synthetic in their nice 4-strokes wonder why the valves are gummed up, have
varnish all over the valve seats, the valves don't seat properly and these
engines even gum up and will not start on long term storage. They should
use using low castor (2-4%) or NO castor in their fuels, 18-20% oil and
mild 15% nitromethane for the most part. No wonder there is such confusion
over fuels, I estimate that over HALF of most modelers I have seen to date
are using fuels less than suitable for the engines they are running them
in. It is much more common than you might think. Because they run right
then, or don't get much oil on the plane, they seem to think this is fine
and acceptable. The tradeoffs some folks make are really not worth it to
the life of their nice engine, but it is ultimately their choice. I just
like to see them make a good choice with good information.
http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/letters/0300/0300.htm
http://rcplanet.com/bamac/mixin_fuel.htm
If you are using that much fuel, why aren't you mixing your own? Just a thought.
See AMA articles and BAMAC TX club site fuel articles. Most of my stuff
costs me about $11 or so a gallon, depends on nitro content mainly, and
that is NOT with the bulk prices I can get for my barrels! Most commercial
fuels are a bit low on oil anyway and for helicopters, you usually end up
using high oil, all synthetic and 15-30% nitromethane. This is not rocket
science. Just a few comments from the peanut gallery. **name withheld**
http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/letters/0300/0300.htm
http://rcplanet.com/bamac/mixin_fuel.htm
The old fuel mixing dinosaur
**name withheld**
PS - Folks are messing up a LOT of really nice ABC, ABN and AAC engines
and 4-strokes on a lot of this fuel, they are simply using the wrong fuel
for many engines. For example, folks here using half castor and half
synthetic in their nice 4-strokes wonder why the valves are gummed up, have
varnish all over the valve seats, the valves don't seat properly and these
engines even gum up and will not start on long term storage. They should
use using low castor (2-4%) or NO castor in their fuels, 18-20% oil and
mild 15% nitromethane for the most part. No wonder there is such confusion
over fuels, I estimate that over HALF of most modelers I have seen to date
are using fuels less than suitable for the engines they are running them
in. It is much more common than you might think. Because they run right
then, or don't get much oil on the plane, they seem to think this is fine
and acceptable. The tradeoffs some folks make are really not worth it to
the life of their nice engine, but it is ultimately their choice. I just
like to see them make a good choice with good information.
http://www.modelaircraft.org/news/letters/0300/0300.htm
http://rcplanet.com/bamac/mixin_fuel.htm
